1. Core Tasks
2. Optional Tasks
3. External Self-Contained Tasks
4. External Tasks
Then, people who write tasks can put the task in ant-contrib and post the documentation to ant, so at least it can get some visibility. People could also include download links to the jars from the manual, to download the additional things needed. I think this would be very useful. Another option might be to employ maven and have ant's build download the external docs? In the meantime, I will send a mail off to ant-contrib.
I have one more suggestion. Ant contrib was saying I have to change the build file. It would be really nice if the only thing we had to do was drop in the ant-contrib jar in the lib directory of ant, and ant used a different classloader to read out of unknown jars to check the tasks.properties file, and if there was one automatically add the tasks without changes to the build file. I don't think it's that hard to do. Search lib directory for jars not called ant.jar and optional.jar, and then load that jar in a different class loader just to get the properties file and read it in to get all the tasks. What do you think?
thanks,
dean
Erik Hatcher wrote:
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Dean Hiller wrote:
ok, I am a moron. I think I ran into the top of that when looking for guidelines and must not have looked down far enough. My apologies for being annoying.
Anyways, what you are saying kind of worries me. I have no where to really post this then? I have a feeling this ant task is just going to end up being used by me because I can't put it in some open source repository to share it with others. this is a self-contained task unlike most other tasks out there so I don't think it would be too hard to include it. People can still e-mail me for support which is why I put my e-mail there, or just assign me the bugs that come in or something.
How should I handle this then?
Perhaps lobbying to have it added to ant-contrib at Sourceforge?
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